Club Wyndham Resort at Fairfield Bay features one- and two-bedroom timeshare condominium units and vacation rentals near the Indian Hills Golf Resort on the northern side of Greers Ferry Lake. Units range in size from 591 square feet to 1,525 square feet. Some feature whirlpool tubs and private balconies. The resort is not on the lake but is a…
Horseshoe Bay Resort is a Texas Hill Country Mecca for golf, home to four 18-hole championship golf courses. The resort, about an hour's drive west of Austin and an hour's drive north of San Antonio, features three 18-hole championship courses designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., as well as a private course, Summit Rock, designed by Jack Nicklaus…
Pebble Beach Resorts® celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019. Golfers can stay at The Lodge at Pebble Beach™, The Inn at Spanish Bay™, Casa Palmero® or the new Fairway One cottages at The Lodge. The resort is home to multiple restaurants, including the legendary Tap Room inside The Lodge and Sticks® (where a bagpiper plays at dusk every night);…
Arnold Palmer left his indelible mark all over the game of golf, and perhaps the best place to feel his spirit and appreciate his legacy is in Orlando, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge. The PGA Tour-host golf course is full of memorable holes and is a bucket-list play for lovers of the professional game. The 70-room Lodge is one of golf's…
Bay Hill Golf Club & Lodge holds a unique place in Orlando as a private club that also doubles as 70-room lodge open to visitors. It's combination of intimacy and luxury is tough to find in Orlando, where courses are either ultra-exclusive or huge golf resorts.
There are golf courses that, no matter the weather, no matter your mood, you look forward to playing. Bay Harbor Golf Club in Michigan's Boyne Resorts is one of those courses, Mike Bailey writes. It's been billed as the "Pebble Beach of the Midwest," but the comparison really isn't necessary.
Before Arnold Palmer purchased Orlando's Bay Hill Club & Lodge, architect Dick Wilson laid out the course. Bradley S. Klein shines some light on Wilson's work at Bay Hill and beyond.
Golf architects train for decades, learning the skills of their trade. Those crafts run the gamut, from fine-motor drawing to overseeing large-scale grading operations: refined sketching and drawing mass grading plans. The hope is to use those skills to create fabulous new golf courses and to fix up older ones so they have more appeal.
There are plenty of options where you can tee it up competitively in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2014, including Northern California Golf Association and Golf Channel Am Tour-sanctioned events. Here a calendar of some of the top events open to amateur golfers of all handicaps this year.
Northern Bay Golf Resort and Marina is a fine replica course in the beautiful Wisconsin Dells. Here you'll find holes from Augusta National, Bay Hill, TPC Sawgrass and other American classics.
The Sandpiper Bay Golf & Country Club -- in Sunset Beach, N.C., just north of Myrtle Beach -- is literally surrounded by its competition. But as golf developments have sprung up around it, the 27-hole club hasn't gotten lost in the shuffle. In fact, it was named the 2010 course of the year by the Myrtle Beach Golf Course Owners Association after finishing a major three-year renovation. Sandpiper Bay isn't cruel and conniving like so many modern layouts, and there's something to be said for straight-forward, well designed holes.
Crooked Tree, one of Boyne Resort's many northern Michigan golf courses, has reopened after a winter under the knife at the hands of architect Arthur Hills.
There might not be a more diverse 27-hole course in the world than Bay Harbor Golf Club. The Links nine dances upon the cliffs along Lake Michigan and Little Traverse Bay. The Preserve ambles through the backwoods northern Michigan is known for, with a few wetlands and a lake view for added effect. Bay Harbor's Quarry nine, cut from an old rock quarry, boldly rolls out a demanding test of target golf.
There are many sides to golf in the Texas Hill Country, starting with Barton Creek Resort, located just west of downtown Austin, to courses closer to Horseshoe Bay and Lake Travis.
In an area of the country where great golf and luxurious digs are abundant, the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay and Half Moon Bay Golf Links can most certainly hold its own.
The Caribbean's third-largest island isn't the best golf destination in the region (that would be the Dominican Republic) or the island with the most courses (that would be Puerto Rico). But Jamaica, home to nine courses and two nine-holers, offers plenty of reasons to drag your clubs south for a winter golf getaway.
Put Fraserburgh Golf Club, the seventh oldest club in the world, dating to 1777, on your next golf tour of the Highlands. Located in Aberdeenshire, the club's James Braid-designed Corbie Hill Course is one of Scotland's most underrated links.
Jack Nicklaus left his design mark at the Kinloch Club, a dynamic inland links that opened in 2007 in the heart of New Zealand's North Island. Golf Digest rated the course no. 76 among its top 100 courses outside of the U.S. in 2012. Glimpses of Lake Taupo in the distance add beauty to an intoxicating amphitheater of hills surrounding the golf course.
Erin Hills, like Chambers Bay in 2015, is a new, untested venue hosting the 2017 U.S. Open, a first for the state of Wisconsin. How will players like the nuances designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry and Ron Whitten?
Bay Hill has Arnold Palmer. The Dorado Beach Resort & Club has Chi Chi Rodriguez. Golfers playing any of the four courses at Dorado will likely run into Puerto Rico's most famous player. Rodriguez has a long history with the resort, working at the famed East Course during its heyday in the 1960s. These days, the East looks and plays better than ever thanks to a renovation by Robert Trent Jones Jr. finished in 2011.
There are only a few golf courses in the Caribbean that have a tournament pedigree on par with The Tryall Club, host of the Johnnie Walker World Championship from 1991-95.
Set in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania southeast of Pittsburgh, Latrobe C.C. is, of course, where Arnold Palmer learned the game. The golf course is more than a nostalgia trip, however.
No city in Ohio boasts a better combination of good public golf courses and tourist attractions -- three pro sports teams and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- than Cleveland. The region's public golf scene goes deep. Simply put, the golf scene in Cleveland rocks.
We've created golf's version of Frankenstein's monster, borrowing holes from some of the most famous courses across the country to create a 7,346-yard torture chamber where no bad shot goes unpunished.
With roughly 400 golf courses spread across the North and South islands, New Zealand boasts more golf courses per capita than anywhere in the world. And among all these golf courses, there are plenty of holes that show why the Kiwis are so passionate about golf.
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